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The remaking of Istanbul : Portrait of an Ottoman city in the nineteenth century
From the introduction : During the nineteenth century, a concerted effort was made to transform the Ottoman capital of Istanbul into a Western-style capital, paralleling the general struggle to salvage the Ottoman Empire by reforming its…
Le commerce dans tous ses états. Espaces marchands et enjeux de société
Ce livre est la synthèse de nombreux travaux universitaires français et étrangers dont l’objet est moins d’approcher le commerce stricto sensu et du seul point de vue géographique que de le mettre en rapport avec d’autres facteurs et processus…
Ville et marché
Les acteurs de marché font-ils la ville ? Un dossier publié par Charlotte Halpern et Julie Pollard sur Espaces Temps.net.
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- "Les acteurs de marché font-ils la ville ?", par Charlotte Halpern et Julie Pollard
La ville est-elle…
Sommaire :
- "Les acteurs de marché font-ils la ville ?", par Charlotte Halpern et Julie Pollard
La ville est-elle…
Barcelona : Architecture, city and society 1975-2015
Abstract from the publisher : Over the last twenty years Barcelona has reached the apex of its public appeal, and the time has come for a critical evaluation of its recent past. Barcelona is an emblematic example of how a European and Mediterranean…
The transatlantic collapse of urban renewal : Postwar urbanism from New York to Berlin
Abstract from the publisher : The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically changed by the political and physical realities of sprawl, urban decay,…
Staging the new Berlin: Place marketing and the politics of urban reinvention post-1989
Abstract from the publisher: This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in…
Reconversion, renouvellement et innovation dans les territoires industriels et urbains
Conférences données lors de la journée de l'AGF-Association des Géographes Français et du CERPA-Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche sur les Paysages de l'Université Nancy 2.
- Allocution d’ouverture Michel DESHAIES, professeur, CERPA
- La…
- Allocution d’ouverture Michel DESHAIES, professeur, CERPA
- La…
Starchitecture: Scenes, actors and spectacles in contemporary cities
Abstract from the publisher: Internationally renowned architects are at centre stage in public debates, not only with reference to designing aesthetically striking artefacts, but also to urban regeneration programmes and urban branding. The…
What happened to participation? Urban development and authoritarian upgrading in Cairo
Elena Piffero is Doctor of Philosophy in International Cooperation and Sustainable Development Policies at the University of Bologna, Italy. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license 3.0. Alternative link to the…
Remaking Madrid : Culture, politics, and identity after Franco
Abstract from the publisher : Remaking Madrid is the first full-length study of Madrid’s transformation from the dreary home of the Franco dictatorship into a modern and vibrant city. It argues that this remarkable transformation in the…
Reimagining Detroit : Opportunities for redefining an American city
Abstract from the publisher : Experts estimate that perhaps forty square miles of Detroit are vacant—from a quarter to a third of the city —a level of emptiness that creates a landscape unlike any other big city. Author John Gallagher,…
Paris and the Belle Epoque
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Modern Paris was indelibly shaped by the rebuilding project ordered by Napoleon III and carried out by Baron Haussmann in the 1850s and '60s. The large-scale demolition of whole neighborhoods in central Paris,…
Modern Paris was indelibly shaped by the rebuilding project ordered by Napoleon III and carried out by Baron Haussmann in the 1850s and '60s. The large-scale demolition of whole neighborhoods in central Paris,…
Beijing record : A physical and political history of planning modern Beijing
Abstract from the publisher : Beijing Record, the result of ten years of research on the urban transformation of Beijing in the last fifty years, brings to an extended Western audience the inside story on the key decisions that led to Beijing's…
Spectacular reconstructions: Ways of seeing and the politics of recovery in American urban disasters
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Kevin Rozario uses the two most devastating urban catastrophes in American history, the Chicago fire of 1871 and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, to explore how extraordinary recovery from sudden ruination can…
Kevin Rozario uses the two most devastating urban catastrophes in American history, the Chicago fire of 1871 and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, to explore how extraordinary recovery from sudden ruination can…
Fragments of cities: The new American downtowns and neighborhoods
Abstract from the publisher: Larry Bennett's Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods examines the social consequences of both the new approaches to downtown design and the physical upgrading of residential neighborhoods. …
The third city : Chicago and American urbanism
Abstract from the publisher : Our traditional image of Chicago—as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends—is such a powerful shaper of the city’s identity…
Italo Calvino's architecture of lightness : The utopian imagination in an age of urban crisis
Abstract from the publisher : This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well…
La Calle : Spatial conflicts and urban renewal in a Southwest city
Abstract from the publisher : On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project - Arizona's first major urban renewal project, which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to…
Cities with 'slums': From informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa
Organisers' description: The UN’s Development target to improve the lives of 100 million ‘slum’ dwellers has been inappropriately communicated as a target to free cities of slums. Cities with ‘Slums’: from informal…
Creatively destroying New York : Fantasies, premonitions, and realities in the provisional city
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This lecture places the attack on the World Trade Center in the context of New York's history as a place that is seemingly destined to be destroyed and rebuilt with stunning regularity. It explores three ways of…
This lecture places the attack on the World Trade Center in the context of New York's history as a place that is seemingly destined to be destroyed and rebuilt with stunning regularity. It explores three ways of…